> WJ Koh wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm not sure about how to set up VMWare to access a real partition, >> but you could set up a samba server on your physical machine, and >> access the drive as a Windows network drive. >> >> Koh Wei Jie >> >> From: Edwin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:15:31 +0800 >> Subject: [Slugnet] Accessing "Real" Partition From Within VM >> Hi all, >> >> i have XP installed on VMWare Server on Ubuntu. Is it possible to >> have >> the XP access one of the real partitions (formatted FAT32) as >> though it >> is a drive within the virtual machine itself? How? >> >> Happy 2008 in advance! >> >> Thanks and Regards, >> Edwin >> > Edwin Lee wrote: > Thanks We Jie, yes, this solution is simple and elegant. At first i just > couldn't access the shared folder from XP (keeps popping up the username > and password prompt without reason. How useful.), and after some > searching, found that i needed to run smbpasswd to assign a samba > password to the linux username. It works fine now. > > > > Thanks and Regards, > Edwin > >
Dear Edwin, The last time I tried the samba/shared folder method (around a year back), the file transfer speed was horrendously slow. Think was in kb/s, with vmware tools installed. How's the transfer speed you are getting now? Thanks! Junhao _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
